Besides being perhaps the logician of note of the 20th century (against considerable "competition"), he's become an important philosopher in the 21st. I think he realizes he's become a philosopher, although it would seem (from private correspondence) that he doesn't find philosophy all that important, let alone that he's such an important one.
I often tell people to watch the video even if they don't know one "euh" of French. There's something about the energy in it that already conveys so much.
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I can't honestly evaluate the other, minor Girard because of the homonymy. It's unfortunate.
Besides being perhaps the logician of note of the 20th century (against considerable "competition"), he's become an important philosopher in the 21st. I think he realizes he's become a philosopher, although it would seem (from private correspondence) that he doesn't find philosophy all that important, let alone that he's such an important one.
The recommended book-length treatment of Girardian ideas is "The Phantom of Transparence". The TED talk version is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc3pgZxU-Cg
I often tell people to watch the video even if they don't know one "euh" of French. There's something about the energy in it that already conveys so much.
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I can't honestly evaluate the other, minor Girard because of the homonymy. It's unfortunate.